THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



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lU 'm , Sltntteof Soda, SugM Scum, , 

 •*•» rf £ "filial Manures, Linseed Cakes, &c. 

 rSfe^oS S 10, MarkLane, London. 



_ _ Manufacturers and 



T lF1CI f«dtn mrttog ARTIFICIAL MANURES may 

 lbtr » ergage« '» iDS t nlct ion for their economical and 



■»» « TerT ".HnnS 8ppl>i>'K to J. C. Kmbit F G.S., &c, 

 t P'*P? rat , , °Hc,,rtnral and Chemical College, Kenmngton, 



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^^r/'orrliWnstn.ctiom, in Chemical 

 G**""^ Assaying will find ample facility and accommoda- 



1 lt Vr - phosphate ofTime; W.T Sulphuric Acid and 



Ceprolite 



^r^TT^WlKG MANURES are manufactured 



HL it.wEs' Factory, Deptford Creek ^Turnip Manure. 



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i**?; Peruvian Guano, guaranteed to contain 16 per 

 j; B . GeDIU "? lf Mtrate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia, and 



2&SSgWs= : u 



^LONDON MAHUBE COMPANY Leg to call 



T u Nation of Agriculturists to their WHEAT and 



A ^ma^RES for present use. The London Manure 



0V£ Q Vo offer Genuine Fenivian Guano, Nitrate of Soda, 



CmvW 8 Tr- 1 L «nnpTT)ho SD hate of Lime. Fishery and other 



Coneen J'.ll Artificial Manures of value. The London Manure 

 •* StrVn ee Peruvian Guano and every Manure they 

 CMB C" I SSSly genuine. Edwabd Pueseb, Sec. 



^TANDOTHER MANURES ON SALE.— 



, The success attending the application of the manure 

 • Mr adapted for "Wheat during the last two years, induces 



r«Ii?;iirf£ned to again offer it to the Agriculturists with con- 

 fij-l. Also Superphosphate of Lime, Blood Manure, Guano, 

 liZt* of Wda, Gypsum, Salt, Peat Charcoal, and all other 

 Cs of known value.- Apply for Prices Current Vo MARK 

 K0TBERG1LL & C O., 204a, Upper Thames Street, London. 



JVY aTFc MANURE COMPANY. 



\j WHITE'S PATENTS. 



Offices, 37, Charing Cross, London. 



Directors. 

 The Hon. J. W. Fortescue. | General Macdonald, C.B. 

 G. P. Irvine, Esq. I Newton S. Scott, Esq. 



fakers— Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, & Co., St. James's Street. 

 Jfcitori- Messrs. Vallance & Vallance, 20. Essex Street, Strand. 



Agricultural Chemist— W. "White, Esq. 

 Secretary—Mr. "VV. F. Mould, 



Patent Cyanic Manure SZ. per ton. 



Deodorising Powder ... 15s. per cwt. 

 „ Plant Preservative ... 125. 6d, per cwt. 

 The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that their 

 imroge ments will now enahle them to execute orders to any 

 «tent. Applications for Agencies to be accompanied by 

 references. Orders to be addressed to the Secretary, 37, Charing 

 Cross , London. ; m 



WANTED, RESPECTABLE AGENTS for a 

 MANURE, the character and wonderful results of which 

 in w fully established by several hundreds of Testimonials, from 

 ill parts of thft United Kingdom, as to command a sale for it. — 

 Address, with occupation and references, A. It. ,45, Fleet Street, 

 London . 



MANCER,RACK,X WATER-TROUCH AS ONE FIXTURE. 



Impeoved and Newly Patented. 



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fjOTTAM and HALLEN, the original inventors, 



^obtained the Great Exhibition Prize Medal for this arrange- 

 ■ent , to which all the latest improvements are adapted, secured 

 kliJvi™. \ incl "dnig a method entirely new of attaching the 



under 



being 



hiite* • u ,,ff a metnod entirely new ot attaclm 



2"f7 hand rein fr °m the back of the manger to the 

 ■SpW. • P ' a,,owin S the horse greater freedom, and 

 t_S5! ln ° r u eration > add much to its comfort whilst feeding and 

 inithA v wv at rest ' as likewise, from their position, avoid- 

 ouuini * 17 °f the most "stive horse getting cast. No well- 



COTT f" e » h0 «M be without these fittings, 

 the w AMS ENAMELLED MANGERS are constructed in 

 cktnh ; man ner, both as to form and utility; are 



ttiniiftrtn fl P p * arance , durable, and impervious to infection ; 

 *wftce D r € a - t™l £ al 7? n!s £ d » aild JEnamelled. Improved 



' .~™f *■ ihiukb, lamia ren 



in Stable Furniture, in 



ain and 



Box, Fittings, Gutta Percha Preserving Saddle 



Hock t;- ^ racke ts, and every article " "" 



to^bFvZr™ ^ortment of Pat 



£*st Iron tt 2 S i lllgs ' and ever ? description of "Wrought and 

 WdHortirnU i bl,ildin ^ and otner purposes. Agricultural 

 •mental ff« Im P ,ement8 » Iron Gates, both plain and orna- 



% ^VUaltt - q. y analogues on application to Cottam & Hallen, 

 ^ey strr-Pf, oxford Street. 

 ^ .J ^MINO AND VENTILATING. 



^'^J^™*" 1 " ^AFtTY STABLE FITTINGS. 



A ND ENAMELLED MANGERS. 



TREE TRANSPLANTING BY M'CLASHEN'S PATENT. 



R. M'GLASHEN is now prepared to supply 



Apparatus or give Estimates as to the rate at which he 

 will safely and expeditiously transplant Trees or Shrubs of any 

 dimensions in any part of the United Kingdom. 



Canonmills Bridge, Edinburgh. 



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WEEDS 



FLEMING'S 



SALTING 



ON WALKS. 



MR. FLEMING'S WEEDING on 

 MACHINE for GRAVEL WALKS, COURT YARDS, 

 &c, manufactured and sold by Alexander Shanks & Son, Ar- 

 broath, Forfarshire, from whom parti c ulars with prices may be had . 



WATERPROOF PATHS.— BARN AND CATTLE SHED 



FLOORS. 



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CEMENT CONCRETE, which are formed thus:— Screen the 

 gravel of which the path is at present made from the loam which 

 is mixed with it .and to every part of clean gravel add one of sharp 

 river sand. To five parts of such equal mixture add one of Port- 

 land Cement, and incorporate the whole well in the dry state before 

 applying the water. It may then be laid on 2 inches thick. Any 

 labourer can mix and spread it. No tool is required beyond the 

 spade, and in 48 hours it becomes as hard as a rock. Vegetation 

 cannot grow through or upon it, and it resists the action of the 

 severest frost. It is necessary, as water does not soak through it, 

 to give a fall from the middle of the path towards the sides. 



The same preparation makes first-rate paving for BARNS, 

 CATTLE-SHEDS, FARM-YARDS, and all other situations 

 where a clean, hard bottom is a desideratum. May be laid in 



winter equally well as in summer. 

 Manufacturers of ihe Cement, J. B. White & Brothers, 



Milfeank Street, Westminster. 



MAW'S ENCAUSTIC TILE PAVEMENTS form 

 an indestructible and highly decorative substitute for 

 ordinary flooring, and their imperishable Oil Cloth Coverings for 

 Entrance Halls, Passages, Verandahs, Conservatories, &c— 

 Maw & Co. send free of expense their Book of Designs, suitable 

 in price and style for every description of Euilding.— Benthall 

 Works, Broseley, Salop. ^^ 



49 (destroying 5214A Gs. lid.) were th* work of 

 an incendiary, 17 (destroying 181 J. 5*. 1(W.) were 

 by lightning,* 20 (destroying 1211/. 185. iOcty were 

 by children and others playing with lucifers, 1 (re- 

 sulting in a loss of 430?.) were by steam threshing 

 machines, and the remainder are classed as 

 " general." 



Of these causes, lucifers and incendiarism (which 

 will be reduced as education does its work) 



the principal. The latter, it is assumed, will be 

 in some degree checked by the practice adopted by 

 some insurance offices of posting up large bills on 

 those premises which they have insured, which after 

 stating that no lucifers are to be used nor pipes 

 smoked, go on to say — " This farm is insured; the 

 fire office will be the only sufferers in the event of a 

 fire" On this the reviewer properly remarks that 

 the crime is very far from being prompted by personal 



ill-will- ' 



content 



labourers 



it is often the result of mere general dis- 



and 



Kind treatment of 



misanthropy, 

 however, and of neighbours of that class 



hinder 



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, , k Street, Southwark, Manufacturers 



of Copper Cylindrical and Improved Conical Iron BOILERS, 

 and Conservatory and Hothouse Builders, either in Wood or 

 Iron, respectfully call the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and 

 Nurserymen to their simple but efficacious method of warming 

 Horticultural and other Buildings by Hot Water. 



From the extensive works they have executed, references of 

 the highest respectability can be given, and full particulars 



fur— »i«jh.><3 r>r» rtr»r>lipatinn 



hE UEISERAL LAMJ JL>HA1MAGE Afr^D 1M- 



PROVEMENT COMPANY. 



Incobpobatkd by Special Act of Pap.liament. 

 Offices, 52, Parliament Street, London. 



Dibectors. 

 Henry Ker Seymer, Esq., M.P., Chairman. 

 Sir John V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., Deputy-Chairman. 



John C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P. 

 Sir William Cubitt, F.R.S. 

 Henry Currie, Esq. 

 Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq. 



William Fisher Hobbs, Esq. 

 Edward J. Ilutchins, Esq., M.P. 

 Samuel Morton Peto, Esq. 

 William Tite, Esq., F.R.S. 



William Wilshere, Esq. 

 Empowered to execute works of Drainage, Irrigation, Road- 

 making, Enclosing, Reclaiming, and the Erection of Farm 

 Buildings upon any Estates, under Settlement, Mortgage, 

 or Disability, and without any investigation of Title, to charge 

 the total amount of the outlay and expenses upon the property 

 improved, to be repaid by annual instalments, varying according 

 to the number of years over which Landowners may determine 

 the repayment shall extend, within the limits of 31 years for 

 Farm Buildings, and 50 years for Drainage, Roads, and other 

 Improvements. Arrangements are also made with Landowners 

 for the execution of the works by their own agents, and for the 

 supply of the capital or repayment of their own ndvanees, through 

 the exercise of the Company's pow ers. William Clifford, Sec . 



HE LANDS IMPROVEMENT COM1' A N Y, 



incorporated by special Act of Parliament for 

 ngland and Scotland.— To Landowners, the Clergy, Soli- 

 citors, Surveyors, Estate Agents, &c— Loans may be contracted 

 for the execution by the proprietor or by the Company of every 

 landed improvement, especially Drainage, Building, Clearing, 

 Enclosing, Warping, Irrigation, Embanking, Reclamation, Roads, 

 Planting, Machinery, &c. The plans (of buildings), specifica- 

 tions, and estimates are prepared by the proprietors, and are 

 submitted to the approval of the Enclosure. Commissioners. Pro- 

 prietors may avail themselves of the powers of the Act to recover 

 from the inheritance their own funds to be expended on improve- 

 ments. They may also apply jointly for the execution of a 

 mutual improvement, such as a common outfall, &c. For forms 

 of application, Ac, apply to the Hon. Wm. Napier, Managing 



Director. 2. Old Palace Yard. Westminster. 



/ COLLEGE of AGRICULTURE and CHEMISTRY, 



V> and of PRACTICAL and GENERAL SCIENCE, 37 and 

 38, Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, near London. 



Principal— J. C. Nesbit, F.G.S., F.C.S., &c. 



The system of studies pursued in the College comprises every 

 branch requisite to prepare youth for the pursuits of Agriculture, 

 Engineering, Mining, Manufactures, and the Arts; for the Naval 

 and Military Services, and for the Universities. 



Analyses - and Assays of every description are promptly and 

 accurately executed at the College. The terms and other par- 

 ticularsmav he h ad on application to the Principal. m 



rpHE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY 



-L SHOW, 1S55.-— The Trize Lists for Stock, Domestic Poultry, 

 and Roots, are now ready, and Copies may be obtained on appli- 

 cation to John MOBGAN, Jun., Secretary. 

 Offices, 38, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham, February 3. 



generally, though it may not altogether 

 incendiarism will certainly prove of service in the 

 event of a fire by the hearty good-will with which 

 assistance will be rendered towards its extinction. 

 On lucifers as a cause of fires, it is stated that one 

 large fire insurance company has lost 10,000^ a year 

 since their introduction ; and they are sufficiently 

 mischievous in the hands of children, or, indeed, o£ 

 carelessness of any age, to render the absolute denial 

 of matches to farm labourers about the stacks and 

 buildings a most reasonable and right piecaution. 



The following are the precautions suggested by 

 Mr. Beaumont, secretary of the County Fire Office : 



Forbid the use of lucifers and the practice of smoking 

 in or near the rick yards. Ricks to be p'aced in single 

 line, and as far from one another as conveniently 

 possible. Hay ricks and corn ricks to be placed alter- 

 nately. Rick-yards to be kept clear of all loose straw. 

 A pond to be provided close to the rick-yard. The 

 steam threshing machine to be always placed to leeward 

 of the rick, and as far from it as may be ; the loose 

 straw to be removed continually from it, and two or 

 three pailsful of water to be provided close to the aUi- 

 pan, which should be alwajs full of water. 



Some of these instructions will of course be modi- 

 fied by other considerations than the risk of fire : it 

 is not, for instance, very likely that hay-ricks will 

 be alternated with corn-ricks, or that the latter will, 

 when the whole produce of the farm is brought 

 together, be placed in single file upon the ground. 

 The remarks about the use of the portable steam- 

 engine, and the order about lucifers and smoking, 

 are self-evidently right and reasonable. 



Mr. Beaumont further gives instructions how to 

 act when a fire breaks out in a rick yard. The 

 main point is not to disturb the burning rick, which 

 should at once be placed under the superintendence 

 of the most trustworthy man on the spot, who is to 

 see to its not being disturbed or scattered. Mea- 

 sures for the extinction of the fire by pressure and 



be annlied : but the 



by - , 



mam and 



Efit &grtctUtural ©ajttte 



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Z, 1855. 



EET1NGS YOU THE EtfSUlI^G 

 Thubsdat, Feb. 8— Agricultural Imp. Society of IreTand. 



"* ttnstiS t a nted inventJon of thJs description 



^.together . s ? as to P r ^ent considerable waste of Hay and 

 JKE^LY mivv a11 lne newest improvements. 



forty shttY£SX. e 5 economic stable fittings, 



^ lad P»„ V v , 8 PER SET > t0 fiU «P the Wh0le Width 0f 



* cf MinS, il ad ena roeHed or galvanised. Every descrip- 

 S^OatS \ - ks ' and stable Furniture in stock; Iron 



uricg 



!^ ^rice'l u^ apa ^ 200 on Buckingham Palace), price 355. 

 fi of two in**. „ a ? d llll *strated Catalogues forwarded on re- 



» rl i lR0K F oraBKB, &c, 370, Oxford Street, 

 * tew doors east of the Pantheon. 



In a useful and instructive article upon Fires 

 and Fire Insurances in the current number of the 

 Quarterly Review, there is a paragraph or two on 

 agricultural fires and incendiarism among farming 

 stock. The information upon which the reviewer 

 proceeds has been given to him pr.ncipally by the 

 manager of the County Fire Office ; and as the 

 subject is of course interesting to our readers, we 

 extract the facts ascertained by the experience of 

 this one company. Over a total insurance of 

 eight millions, property amounting in value to 



water are of course to be applied 



immediate labour should be directed to 

 hindering the fire from spreading ; and this is to be 

 done by covering the neighbouring ricks with all the 

 blankets, tarpaulins, &c, that can be procured from 

 the house and from neighbours, soaking them con- 

 stantly with water, and placing them especially on 

 that side and those parts on which the wind blows. 



The main purpose of the article in the Review 

 is to detail the general statistics of fires, more 

 especially within the London district ; but this inci- 

 dental reference to agricultural fire insurance 

 seemed important enough to deserve this notice of it. 



We learn from the letter in another column that 

 the sale of Mustard-cake for Rape-cake at Hull 

 the other day was not fraud, but accident or 

 negligence. The broker through whom the cake 

 was purchased, and who at once indemnified the 

 owner of the cattle for his losses, failed, on a second 

 trial, to obtain a verdict against the merchants 

 from whom the cake was procured. Ihe cake, 

 it appeared in evidence, was sold not as Rape-cake 

 but as manure-cake. We have a full report of the 

 trial before us, and of course the evidence is con- 

 flicting enough, but that version of the affair seems 

 to have been believed by the jury ; and so although 

 it is asserted that Rape-cake was asked for, yet the 

 sample and the bulk having been delivered as manure- 

 cake those who suffered from its use as food were 

 not allowed to charge their losses on the merchants. 

 The only use we would make of the occurrence is 

 to point out not only the liability to error in deal- 

 ings of this kind — a matter of importance where so 

 much may hinge upon it, but the difficulty which 

 there is even to experienced person* in detecting 

 error. The broker through whom this business was 

 transacted is innocent throughout of all but blunder- 



8819/. 11*. 4d. Vas destroyed by 128 fires between mg, which in a person of his experience would 1 seem 

 January 1, and November 30, 1854. Of these fires remarkable were there not other instances equally 



